Quotes about Athletics

Most schools don't do this job well at all. Instead, most children feel failure when they go to class. They could also hire athletics to do the job. For a few, sports do the job well. But for the less gifted, athletics makes students feel failure, too. So they hire electronic games to feel successful. And yet for many, even such games yield failure. So they hire friends who have feelings of failure, too—and engage in drugs and other things to feel successful.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

Even Sachin used to get ducks during his career. There are ups and downs in every athlete's career.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

I could never give up athletics. Running is what I will always do. Even if, maybe, the authorities could have stopped me from running in 2009, they could not have stopped me in the fields. I would have carried on with my running; it doesn't matter. When I run I feel free, my mind is free.

Street basketball is all about shakes and fakes, crossing your defender up. The NBA is more strategic.

A guy like Ric Flair at 49 could go out and do his character. A guy 49 going out and doing Goldberg again - I don't know what the odds are.

I hope I will get a chance to compete in the Olympics.

For me, it would be the perfect summer to play in the Euros and then the Olympics. My desire is to play in both.

It is extremely difficult to get a medal at the World Championships, even more than the Olympics. And when one is not 100 per cent prepared, it is next to impossible to win a medal there.

In my opinion, sport teaches valuable lessons in extremely rewarding circumstances.

I just try to work hard and run the offense as good as possible. I had a lot of guys around me who made a lot of good plays to help me out.